Re: [HACKERS] Need for DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib

[Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at>]

Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> I am curious why Cygwin needs DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib, and Win32
> doesn't:
>
> 	# Cygwin case
> 	$(shlib) lib$(NAME).a: $(OBJS) $(DLLINIT)
> 	        $(DLLTOOL) --export-all $(DLLTOOL_DEFFLAGS) --output-def $(NAME).def $(OBJS)
> 	        $(DLLWRAP) -o $(shlib) --dllname $(shlib) $(DLLWRAP_FLAGS) --def $(NAME).def $(OBJS) $(DLLINIT) $(SHLIB_LINK)
> 	        $(DLLTOOL) --dllname $(shlib) $(DLLTOOL_LIBFLAGS) --def $(NAME).def --output-lib lib$(NAME).a
> 	
> 	$(DLLINIT): $(DLLINIT:%.o=%.c)
> 	        $(MAKE) -C $(@D) $(@F)
> 	
> 	endif # PORTNAME == cygwin
> 	
> 	else # PORTNAME == win32
> 	
> 	# win32 case
> 	$(shlib) lib$(NAME).a: $(OBJS)
> 	        $(DLLTOOL) --export-all $(DLLTOOL_DEFFLAGS) --output-def $(NAME).def $(OBJS)
> 	        $(DLLWRAP) -o $(shlib) --dllname $(shlib) $(DLLWRAP_FLAGS) --def $(NAME).def $(OBJS) $(SHLIB_LINK)
> 	        $(DLLTOOL) --dllname $(shlib) $(DLLTOOL_LIBFLAGS) --def $(NAME).def --output-lib lib$(NAME).a
> 	
> 	endif # PORTNAME == win32
>
> The only difference I see is that Cygwin uses $(DLLINIT) while Win32 does
> not.  Is that correct?  Why?
>
> Both set DLLINIT in their makefiles:
>
> 	DLLINIT = $(top_builddir)/src/utils/dllinit.o
>
> Could they be merged into a single snipped of code?

Good point!
Out of my head: I don't think that we (cygwin) don't need that anymore. 
With newer binutils it should get autogenerated. But I'll have to test 
before you can remove that dir.
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Reini Urban
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